Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Nauru and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing the Swans to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
The Mojo Men,
Barbara Tucker,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Crash Course in Science,
Patti Smith,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Neu!,
Eve St. Jones,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Subhumans,
Reuben Wilson,
MDC,
Alison Limerick,
Soft Machine,
Crispy Ambulance,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Victims,
Gabor Szabo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Stooges,
the Soft Cell,
Albert Ayler,
Dual Sessions,
Kurtis Blow,
Rapeman,
Gichy Dan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sällskapet,
Delon & Dalcan,
Robert Görl,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Reagan Youth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Deepchord,
Soul II Soul,
Qualms,
The Seeds,
Warren Ellis,
The Techniques,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Metal Thangz,
Scion,
Jesper Dahlback,
Yazoo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Thompson Twins,
Black Moon,
Stockholm Monsters,
La Düsseldorf,
D'Angelo,
the Human League,
The Skatalites,
Josef K,
Dawn Penn,
The Kinks,
Stiv Bators,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.